Ubuntu MATE 16.10 released with MATE Desktop 1.16.0

The Ubuntu MATE team has announced release of Ubuntu MATE 16.10, latest stable release of official Ubuntu community flavor featuring MATE desktop. This release includes several updated packages and improvements.

Major highlight in this release is availability of MATE desktop 1.16 which completely compiled using GTK 3.x libraries. Ubuntu MATE is the first distribution to offer completely GTK 3.x ported mate desktop. Most of the packages in Ubuntu MATE is compiled using Gtk 3.20 and the theming issues happened during migration process was rectified to provide undisturbed experience to users.

Other changes since release of Ubuntu MATE 16.10 beta 2 can be summarized as:

Upgraded to MATE Desktop 1.16.0

The entire MATE Desktop suite has been upgraded to MATE Desktop 1.16.0